Conference Feedback (use the form at the bottom to add your own!)

The 2010 Global Education Conference was not without some hitches, but the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. Some participants did not realize that we had hour-by-hour schedules with detail and links for every time zone, so in the future we need to improve the visibility of that feature. We also had reports of a number of presenters who did not go through the many trainings we offered, had not practiced in Elluminate, or were otherwise unprepared. We have some ideas on this front for the future, but had some awareness that this would be one of the consequences of an "inclusive" and grass-roots conference of this scope and magnitude.

Many asked why the conference was not advertised more widely. We tried, especially through our partner organizations, and expect future events to receive more exposure now that this one has taken place. We were also asked why we didn't encourage more live video / webcam streaming, and the answer is that we were concerned about creating bandwidth difficulties for participants from remote areas.

We appreciate the extensive feedback, and are looking forward to thinking about how to move the conference forward. Now, the fun--on to the amazingly positive response to this event! (For recent blog posts about the conference, visit the Links and Social Media page.)

I loved the interactivity that was possible and how smoothly it all ran considering the number of persons involved overall...thanks for this game changing event as well as to all of the volunteers that worked so hard to make it happen. In my mind this was a truly unbelievable event.

Your global conf was an amazing feat!

I just wanted to say thanks for the incredible week of professional development I experienced as a result of the Global Education Conference. I have teachers already implementing some of the ideas they discovered as a result of the conference.

It was a great experience for me and also a great honour to work together with such a wonderful team. I am looking forward the next events organized all over the world.

Thank you for this. It was a big deal to me, I learned a lot and my students and I had the opportunity to share our work with a bigger community. Priceless. Thank you.

I was not in sessions as much as many people but I guess a lot because in my dreams last night I was communicating in Elluminate! Thanks for the wonderful idea.

From the press reports, tweets and the attendance statistics, it has undoubtedly been a hugely successful conference! You should be incredibly proud of this accomplishment and on the impact you have on education and educators globally.

Thank you so much for organizing this conference. It was fantastic! I was able to catch a few of the conferences live and look forward to seeing others recorded. You did a great job and should be very proud of how the conference went.

Many thanks again for such a great conference.

Thank you for this amazing experience. A first for me, and what an opening to the world

I was so impressed from this conference that I would like to plan a greater exposure for my staff for next year.

I have enjoyed many Elluminate sessions and am enjoy #globaledcon10 immensely this week.

It was such a powerful experience - I'll be glad to help next year if you've got a job for me! I am convinced that Global connections are the future. This was a great leap forward.

It's been great fun and very enriching. Thanks for the initiative and may this be the first of many to come!!!

Thanks for a great opportunity to share and learn!

Congratulations on a job well done to everyone!!

I wasn't able to attend a lot live but have attended a number through the recording. I only have one thing to say and that is WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! What a fabulous conference and incredible effort put in by everyone. If you do it again next year I definitely want to be a bigger part of it.

I had a wonderful time presenting at the conference. The participants in my session were wonderful as well. Thanks for your hard work in putting this together.

I want to personally thank you for the effort and time your team put in on the Global Conference. I was able to attend sessions 2 days, thanks to my Chair. I am amazed at the Global connectivity and the willingness for people to get involved. I work at a college where I been pulling teeth for 5 years to get people involved in what I would call...meaningful teaching and learning. I just witnessed what I truly believe in...Thank you.

Wow!!!

What can I say about this conference? Y'all have done unbelievably amazing work...I cannot even begin to fathom the immensity of the task you have accomplished! Yet, I find myself becoming sad because it draws to a close tomorrow. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this party. I've enjoyed every second immensely. I absolutely do not have the vocabulary (and that's odd for me) to express my voluminous gratitude, respect, and awe.

Thank you for the opportunity to participate in the 2010 Global Education Conference. This was a first for me yet I had a great time and hope to have an opportunity to do this again. I had two parents to sign in and several colleagues. This made my heart happy.

I am forever thankful.

Congratulations on the success, its truly magnificent. Think of all the emissions we have saved. And, all the people who have connected.

Wow. What an amazing event you put together. I managed to listen to about twenty presentations and learned so much not only about IT, but I was reminded of the power of the wonderful power of the web, and in particular the goodwill of people to give up time to present take part and of course moderate. I hope you had time to enjoy the event as well. I have made great connections through my presentation that will improve and enrich my teaching. Thank you for making this possible.

Excellent, love this format

Ha sido fantástico.

I just wanted to say thanks for the incredible week of professional development I experienced as a result of the Global Education Conference. I have teachers already implementing some of the ideas they discovered as a result of the conference.

I think the Global Education Conference was a wonderful success! I appreciate Elluminate/Blackboard.

Interesting!

I just wanted to say a huge 'thank you'...the support, collegiality, help and sense of sharing during this conference has been huge... It's been an awesome experience - thanks to the whole team :-)

Muy novedoso e interesante.

Excellent opportunity to network.

I can not say thank you enough for all the fabulous content and learning opportunities you have put together through this conference. I tapped only a small per cent due to my other responsibilities but I know this is a GOLD MINE. I have spent my morning listening again to Charles Fadel's presentation and shared the link with our Board and our leadership team. The other presentations add up to an amazing 21st Century learning, globabl perspective on where education needs to be. I wish I had the time to absorb each and every bit of knowledge and hone my own skills to align with the needs of our students.

It was exciting and fun to be part of the conference.

Thanks for offering these free sessions. It's great to have things that overseas teachers can also participate in, despite time and distance challenges.

LOVE IT.

It is awesome that people all over the world can connect and communicate via this conference!

I have enjoyed everything so far and I'm looking forward to the recordings of sessions I just couldn't attend. Elluminate is great.

Just found about it this morning. Thrilled to be here online.

Great ideas. Food for thought.

Awesome.

Wonderful.

A big thank you for organizing such a wonderful conference. I'm sure it was not easy, but it was truly transformational and inspirational. Many insightful conversations were had, and I do hope those conversations continue.

Outstanding.

It is great to attend such rich sessions free of charge. I really enjoyed the experiences that were shared.

Great to have the students involved in sharing!

Great tools to move students into the 21st century.

It was awesome!

I am getting addicted to this it is great.

Great and active- Great way to approach Pro D.

Great event indeed. Helped in professional growth and development of self-confidence. Inspiring and exceptionally cooperative team members and moderators. My first experience using Elluminate turned to be a learning one. I will collaborate more in future and improve my skills of presentation. No one ever helped me like this. Thanks a lot.

Loved having the sidebar with chat and getting the input of so many other teachers.

Best use of Eluminate I've participated in in years.

Very good use of technology...

It was very interesting.

Wonderful.

Great experience.

Great event and really appriciate the online free event. Thanks.

First time. Very glad with the experience.

Excellent experience.

Resource sharing by both the presenter and the participants was fantastic!

Great and informative sessions--it isn't everyday I get to collaborate with educators from all over the world!

I really like the Global atmosphere. I learned about the initiatives in other countries.

Excellent! my first time participating in something like this.

My first time joined the virtual conference and I listened to two sessions, which made me amazed about the technology.

Fantastic.

A great opportunity with no costs - love to see this!

Great experience, looking forward to next one.

Outstanding.

It was great.

Great software - easy to use.

Great experience.

Great Experience - enjoyed the presentation and learned alot.

It was new and engaging, it was quite what I expected it to be.

Great!

Great to participate remotely.

This was excellent! I love the ease of everything as well as the ability to learn so much. Thank you for this experience!

Very enjoyable and thought-provoking.

Love this format!

Thank you so much for the opportunity to participate! Virtual conferences/learning are wonderful.

It's been great, and a wonderfull oppurtunity to broaden my knowledge without going out of my chair...

Really engaging and thoroughly enjoyable!

Great to participate in conferences with others from around the globe.

It was thrilling!

So good.

Wonderful.

Excellent.

I wish more conferences would do this type of sharing of information and sessions.

Thanks so much for doing this. It certainly beats getting on an airplane, especially these days!

First time user. Easier than I had thought.

Excellent.

Great interaction.

Loved it...thank you so much, in this day and age when I am spending so much out of my own pocket in my classroom being able to participate in these sessions are priceless.....

I love the global interaction

Excellent opportunity.

CONGRATS on an awesome conference!! Spectacular work.

I think this is fantastic and convenient.

Listening to them made me proud to be a teacher. They are so clearly professionals, and teachers in the US have been being pummeled lately. So it was wonderful to remember why I teach, and to "be" with like-minded teachers.

Great way to get opportunity to participate in a conference.

Elluminate is user-friendly and this virtual conference lacks nothing in value in terms of knowledge sharing and interaction between presenter and participants. It's definitely on par with a face-to-face conferencing session. The moderators have done a fine job helping to keep the session going smoothly and lively.

First time I have participated in a virtual conference. I was very surprised by how easy it was to access and participate. Fantastic way to provide access to PD. Very exciting.

Really very good - exceeded my expectations.

I love these Elluminate learning sessions!

This is my first real test of Elluminate Live but so far it is great. I love what you have done to create this awareness... obviously great collaboration, insight and commitment. Thanks to the creators and the presenters for everything I've participated in...too bad I didn't have the total week.

Very innovative, and the way to go for future conferences.

This is quite interesting... love the global connection.

It's awesome!

Excelente

This conference couldn't have come at a better time. I teach a pre-service teacher education course "Global Education Through International Collaboration" and I've asked each of my students to attend at least one session and report on our class wiki. The session recordings will also be a great resource.

Great!

Very innovative, opens new horizons.

Great experience as the moderator for the first time.

This was great!

Very powerful potential. Very democratic!

Excelente.

Appreciate the ease, low cost, ability to attend anywhere, etc.

An amazing opportunity to connect worldwide from the comfort of home!!

Loved it.

I absolutely LOVE this format! I have learned so much through Elluminate webinars over this past year!

It's great, interesting, useful...

Definitely looking for globaled 2011!

Me ha gustado mucho y espero particpar en la próxima Conferencia.

Just do it again next year! :D

Love the conference so far--it's amazing! I will be back tomorrow!

I think this conference is amazing as a beginning and it can only get better.

Have more!

What a wonderful idea! I hope the online conference will become an annual event. I just found out about it today but plan on spreading the word.

Excelente

Please keep it happening.

It is so much more accessible than traditional conference format

Keep up the good work

Great venue and being able to view the archived sessions is a major plus! :-)

Love all the session choices!

Encore please!

Great Conference. Looking forward to recorded sessions and doing it again next year.

This conference was expertly done! I clap my hands and stand up for all the organizers. While I could only attend a couple of days throughout the week, every session I did was well worth my time. We have Elluminate at our school district and it is wonderful and a great product!

Great and informative sessions--it isn't everyday I get to collaborate with educators from all over the world!

I reallly like the Global atmosphere.

My first time joined the virtual conference and I listened to two sessions, which made me amazed about the technology.

Fantastic.

Really an exciting thing to have done.

Very useful and engaging content!

Awesome powerful.

Excellent.

Being a very inexperienced computer user and having no experience of Elluminate, I've learned a lot of new things. I am greatly motivated with all the presentations which I attended. The only pity is that I had so little time to participate! I hope it will be an annual event.

I like participatiing in the virtual conference. The topics were varied and I can view the ones I missed.

Thank you Elluminate for allowing Steve and Lucy to coordinate such a fantastic conference!

Easy and effective, especially with access to the recordings later!

Very easy to use. Great to be able to interact with the presenter.

Wow - what an incredible concept! And, at the same time, why isn't all learning like this?!

Great experience and this was an awesome session.

This is a really good way to interact and communicate. It's also a lot more easier to use this programme as to have this sort of conference over the internet.

First time and it was great. Great conversation between participants as well.

I have truly enjoyed this experience. I've been able to get the benefits of a conference- collaboration, brainstorming, samples of work amidst the regular workday. And there is something to be said about sitting with a cup of tea from your own kitchen while listening to new ideas.

Great format, thanks for all your efforts!

I have used Elluminate to present some 35 webinar events over the past few years. It is a great web application for sharing thoughts, ideas, and learing from others.

Great interface, felt completely connected to the speaker and other participants.

I feel like I was in a real class learning about many experiences at the same time

Amazing! Wonderful! Yet again I learnt so much.

This conference brings the world to a developing country where teachers work against huge odds with few to no resources. Their determination is exemplary. Without such conferences their story would be missed by many.

It really makes the world feel small. Great questions from participants.

The interactivity and use was very easy. I will be using and checking out Elluminate in the near future for possible use in my classes.

Great access. Good that it is free, so it is available for everyone.

It was great to hear good ideas that can be used immediately.

It was great to be able to connect with amazing people from where I was, rather than traveling. Thank you for this experience!

It was easy and informative.

I learned a lot and am really enthusiastic about trying some new things with my class after this conference. It was amazing to be able to conference live with a worldwide community of teachers.

Amazing presentation and presenter! Gave me lots of good ideas! The format was very cool (I am a first-time user).

My first virtual conference. Great to share with others from around the world.

Very insightful and enriching. It's a good way of getting connected to other educators and to learn from each other. Helps one to gauge their own level of ICT use and exposure to new or the latest in ICT tools and learning. Definitely on par with real life learning experience

even without the physical presence of participants. Definitely lives up to the idea of a flat world learning environment!

I really enjoyed seeing and being able to contact the presenter personally.

The conference is a brilliant undertaking. I'm so glad to have taken part.

SO WONDERFUL you're doing this!!!! AND recording it!!!

I´m so happy to learn about this kind of virtual conference! I will going to use this technology with my students!

You have things set up very nicely to see what is available now and to access any of the sessions.

Novedoso e interesante.

I found this very educative and wondered why it is not globally marketed through Embassies and Consuls in their News Sections and or Countries' Ministries of Education for the importance it carries to the world especially through the kids, our leaders of tomorrow.

This was a really wonderful experience.

Wonderful sharing experience.

Great opportunity to connect with new ideas.

I thought it had information that was thoughtful and clear. I enjoyed the conference very much.

It was my first time and I really liked it. It was really easy to use and helpful.

EXCELLENT EVENT

The whole week was amazing on the backbone of a great product that held up fantastically!

Very interesting; learned about education resources that are new to me (thanks)

Great job! Easy to learn platform.

Comfortable for a new user.

Great format and platform for the session - I love the accessibility of this virtual conference...removes many barriers that are typically restrictive to a typical conference attendance (financial, taking time off, travel, etc.)

This has been wonderful.

This was my first time using Elluminate so I enjoyed the experience of using the software as well as the talk!

You've done an amazing job!

This was my first participation, I have to come again.

I hope it will be annual.

The organisation is awesome! Thank you so much.

Hold again soon!

More often please!

Weekly sessions would be great!

Gracias!!

I would like to thank the organizers, the facilitators, and the educational community for the great experience that the Global Education Conference has provided for the world.